Jadagan
The jadagan (Khakas: чадыған, chadyghan, Russian: чатхан, chatkhan, or Siberian harp) is a wooden board zither of the Khakas people in Siberia.
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The jadagan usually has 6 or 7 strings stretched across movable bridges and tuned a fourth or fifth apart. The body is hollowed out from underneath like an upturned trough. It has a convex surface and an end bent towards the ground. The strings are plucked and the sound is very smooth. The length of the instrument is around 1.5 metres (59 in).
The instrument was considered to be sacrosanct and playing it was a rite bound to taboos. It was mainly used at court and in monasteries, since strings symbolised the twelve levels of the palace hierarchy.
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